Nils Wagner wrote:
> David Cournapeau wrote:
>> Nils Wagner wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> I am going to install numpy/scipy (svn version)
>>> on an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU. And I would like to build
>>> everything from scratch
>>> (including BLAS/LAPACK/ATLAS).
>>>>>> Which compiler options/flags should I use for BLAS/LAPACK
>>> in that case ?
>>>>>> Which fortran compiler g77/gfortran is
>>> currently recommended to build numpy/scipy ?
>>>>>> BTW, I am using openSUSE 10.2.
>>>>>> Nils
>>>>>>>> For Atlas, you should use the flags set by the ATLAS build system. If
>> you use recent ATLAS sources (3.7.* serie), there are some arch default
>> for your CPU, I think.
>>>> cheers,
>>>> David
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>>SciPy-user@scipy.org>>http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/scipy-user>>> Hi again,
>> I am confused about CPU THROTTLING.
>> How can I switch off CPU throttling on SuSE Linux 10.2 ?
I don't know anything about Suse, but if the command line cupfreq-set
works, you should try (as root generally) as written in the docs:
cpufreq-selector -g performance
cpufreq works by using so called governor (hence the -g), and the
performance one is more or less equivalent to disabling cpu throttling,
as I understand it (note that I don't know much about those things; but
if I do that on my laptop, it is working as expected).
>> I found a command "cpufreq-set" but I don't know how to proceed.
>> ATLAS uses gfortran by default but I have used g77 to build BLAS/LAPACK.
ATLAS is written in C, so in my understanding is that the fortran
compiler is just used to build the Fortran interface to the C
blas/lapack built by ATLAS. I think the key point is to always keep the
same compiler (eg if you use gfortran, make sure you always use it for
all the libraries used by numpy/scipy like umfpack, etc...).
One way to check which one is "better", would be to check other fortran
libraries you are using, I guess (eg, what is the Suse default: g77 or
gfortran ?).
cheers
David